Ohio Heartbeat Bill: A Casualty of Politics as Usual
Columbus, OH – December 3, 2012 - After having the Heartbeat Bill (HB125) for a year and a half, Ohio Senate President Tom Niehaus (R-District 14) has now officially killed the bill. He said, "This was an effort on my part to fulfill my responsibility as the leader of the caucus to protect my members …” (www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/30/heartbeat-bill-totally-dead..." target="_blank">Heartbeat Bill totally dead for this year, Dispatch, November 30, 2012). Apparently, Niehaus values protecting politicians from public scrutiny more than protecting little baby boys and girls from dismemberment by abortion.
In the same Dispatch article, Niehaus said, "I am not a lawyer…” The problem is he apparently wants to be one. The Senate President has turned the separation of powers on its head! Instead of behaving like an elected representative, he made a decision on the constitutionality of the Heartbeat Bill before it ever came to a vote. In America, our judges have become legislators, and our NOW our legislators have become judges!
What Senator Niehaus seems to have lost sight of is the fact that Roe vs. Wade is unconstitutional not the Heartbeat Bill. People who submit themselves to the worst ruling in our history are no better than the ones who wrote it. Senator Niehaus will be remembered not for his pro-life legislative accomplishments but for sacrificing thousands of Ohio preborn babies at the altar political cronyism.
--Mark Harrington, Executive Director, Created Equal
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